Washington, D.C. – Interior Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk will be a speaker at the upcoming 66th Annual National Congress of American Indians Convention and Trade Show being held October 11-16, 2009, at the Palm Springs Convention Center in California. He will address the convention’s second general assembly on Monday, October 12, where he will discuss the Department’s law enforcement, education and economic development initiatives in Indian Country.
Established in 1944, NCAI (www.ncai.org) is the country’s oldest national association of American Indian and Alaska Native tribes, and holds one of the largest annual gatherings of tribal representatives.
Who: Larry Echo Hawk, Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior
What: Assistant Secretary Echo Hawk will attend the NCAI 66th Annual Convention and Trade Show where he will speak at the second general assembly on the Department’s law enforcement, education and economic development initiatives in Indian Country.
When: Monday, October 12, 2009, Second General Assembly, 3:30-4:00 p.m. (local time)
Where: Palm Springs Convention Center, Oasis Hall 1, 277 N. Avenida Caballeros, Palm Springs, Calif.
CREDENTIALS: This invitation is extended to working media representatives who are required to display sanctioned media credentials for admittance to this event.
